Submitted by Catrin Darsley on Tue, 2014-08-12 00:00
Funded with £3 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), on behalf of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme (RCUKEP), six new projects will address how to use technology, data and information, mathematics, law and sociology to create better energy strategies and behaviours in public and private, non-domestic buildings stock.
The new projects will be based at Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, University of Southampton and the University of Strathclyde.
The Cambridge project aims to create software which will help to reduce the uncertainty in modelling the energy management of a wide variety of non-domestic buildings and is called B-bem: The Bayesian building energy management portal. The research team is led by Energy @ Cambridge member Ruchi Choudhary (Department of Engineering) and includes Sebastian Macmillan (IDBE), Koen Steemers and Yeonsook Heo (Department of Architecture), and Michael Pollitt (Cambridge Judge Business School).